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...began his apprenticeship with a painter of religious scenes and former pupil of Titian, in Milan. Why did he choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...
...year when the new gallery opens in 2009. In Brisbane, says director Hall, the catalyst was government-driven "cultural diplomacy," putting the state's engagement with Asia and the Pacific into concrete form. Just last month, the gallery purchased 20 new works by Niuean-New Zealander painter John Pule, helping to remedy Australia's blind spot on contemporary Pacific art. "That they're looking to the region is exciting and great for all of us," says the MCA's Macgregor...
...collection space, one senses a cultural flowering just as important as any glassy cathedral to contemporary art. Here the fiberglass manta ray and skater-boy video of former "Primavera" artists James Angus and Shaun Gladwell sit happily alongside such contemporary jewels as Jean Tinguely's kinetic sculpture and bark painter John Mawurndjul's rainbow serpent. Here, and across Australasia, spring has sprung...
...asserting the power of what his rival could not do: "Michelangelo, who was always in competition with Leonardo, wanted to reaffirm the traditional buon fresco technique. The Sistine is that affirmation." True fresco did not include the use of glue sizing and dark washes a secco. "No other fresco painter applied such a glue," says Head Restorer Colalucci, "so why should Michelangelo have done so? He knew very well that the final result could not have lasted long. To suggest that he gave his fresco a glue sizing is an insult to his technical ability. A fresco artist studies colors...
...what I call my roadwork." A stickler for historical accuracy, he researches his murals in libraries and specialized museums. For his Civil War mural, a member of the hospital staff who belongs to a Civil War re-enactment group gave Levenson photos of Union and Confederate uniforms. The painter confers with him regularly to make sure even the smallest details are right, from the shape of the rims of the soldiers' eyeglasses to their shoelaces...